The Blue Bears’ de­fense was stout, lim­it­ing J.C. Smith to 106 yards on of­fense, zero on the ground. The pass rush, led by Devonte Adams’ three sacks, con­sis­tently pres­sured Golden Bulls fresh­man An­to­nio Wal­lace, who com­pleted just 5of-24 passes, in­clud­ing a 57-yard touch­down strike to Brax­ton Gam­brell to close to within 17-9 in the third quar­ter.

Liv­ing­stone had five sacks and forced three turnovers.

Mean­while, Hayes was ef­fi­cient, hit­ting 11-of-19 passes for 214 yards and a 32-yard score to Justin Ruf­fin for a 7-0 lead. The Blue Bears made the most of their scor­ing chances, con­vert­ing both red-zone pos­ses­sions into field goals com­pared to 0-2 for J.C. Smith.

Records: Liv­ing­stone 3-6, 3-3 CIAA; J.C. Smith 2-7, 2-4 CIAA.

3 WHO MAT­TERED

Hayes: Liv­ing­stone’s quar­ter­back put on a pro­duc­tive show in the first half, hit­ting 8-of-14 passes for 159 yards and a 32-yard scor­ing strike to Justin Ruf­fin.

Gam­brell: The Golden Bulls re­ceiver’s 53-yard scor­ing re­cep­tion cut Liv­ing­stone’s lead to 17-9 in the third quar­ter.

Adams: The Liv­ing­stone de­fen­sive end put an im­pres­sive cap on his se­nior sea­son with five tack­les, in­clud­ing three sacks in his fi­nal game as a Blue Bear.

WORTH MEN­TION­ING

Liv­ing­stone’s spe­cial

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teams were an ad­ven­ture, with a pair of er­rant snaps on punt at­tempts re­sult­ing in a J.C. Smith safety and turn­ing the ball over on downs at the Blue Bears’ 4 late in the fourth quar­ter.